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It may be an oversimplification but it seems like it might be challenging to classify how long someone intends to drive. Someone might drive for 6 months and le
by viscanti 4y ago
It may be an oversimplification but it seems like it might be challenging to classify how long someone intends to drive. Someone might drive for 6 months and leave because they were able to find full time work. I'm inclined to say that's a success and was something they were able to quickly and easily start doing while they were looking for someone else. Maybe someone else drives nights and weekends to save up for a wedding or some other one off expense and then quits. That's probably also considered a success. Simply looking at average length of work doesn't really tell us what their intent was.
I bring up the surprising number of multi year drivers because if you believe what you read online, you'd imagine that Uber is stealing from people who don't understand what depreciation is and that no one could still be doing it on their second or third vehicle. That appears not to be the case and there are numerous counter examples that disprove it. That doesn't seem to stop people from still arguing that Uber is somehow exploiting everyone.
- ska 4y ago> That appears not to be the case and there are numerous counter examples that disprove it. My point was that the existence of said counterexamples doesn't prove anything very strong, only that clearly Uber isn't only stealing from people who don't understand depreciation, etc. In order to actually understand what is going on, you'd need to have a broad survey (and yes, that should include people like your hypothetical). It would look something like a uniform sampling over drives (not trips) as a starting place. Average length doesn't prove anything, but it should be clear that I wasn't suggesting it did.